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Tiflis Geographical Society was a geographical society in Russia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was associated with progressive and liberal causes. Although it was originally organized in Tbilisi, Russia, it became commonly known in English-speaking circles as the "Tiflis Geographical Society."

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Tiflis Geographical Society

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Tiflis Geographical Society was a geographical society in Russia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was associated with progressive and...

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Tbilisi

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[ˈtʰbilisi] ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis (/ˈtɪflɪs/ TIF-liss), (Georgian: ტფილისი, romanized: t'pilisi) is the capital...

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Helene Dolgoruki

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"Woronzoff"), and the family moved from Saratov to an even more imposing castle at Tiflis. It has been reported that a constant visitor at this time was Prince Alexander...

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Alexander Mantashev

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one of the world's wealthiest individuals.[citation needed] Born in Tiflis, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire, Mantashev spent most of his childhood in...

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Friedrich Bayern

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recommended him to the position of curator at the museum of the geographical society in Tiflis. From here he went on collecting trips to Armenia in the Ararat...

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Caucasus

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(1860). Sixty years of the Caucasian War (Шестьдесят лет Кавказской войны). Tiflis, at Runivers.ru in DjVu format. Gagarin, G. G. (1840). Costumes Caucasus...

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Gustav Radde

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Ornithologists' Union and the Zoological Society of London. He was awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1889 and the Constantine Medal...

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Azerbaijanis in Georgia

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literature in Tiflis in the mid-nineteenth century, along with his Ganja-native teacher Mirza Shafi Vazeh. Both died and were buried in Tiflis. The first...

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Azerbaijan

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Shia and Sunni intellectuals in the Russian-held cities of Baku, Ganja and Tiflis (Tbilisi, now Georgia). Within the same century, in post-Iranian Russian-held...

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South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast

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killed and their land was seized by the Ossetians. The central government of Tiflis retaliated by sending the National Guard to the area. However, the Georgian...

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Battle of Baku

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accept this position. The mood prevailing in Tiflis (where the assembly located) was very different. Tiflis acknowledged the existence of a state of war...

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Caucasus Germans

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was established by a group of Swabian Germans near the Georgian capital Tiflis (Tbilisi), along the Kakheti highway, now part of Sartichala. Two months...

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Doukhobors

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resettled in Georgia between 1841 and 1845. Akhalkalaki uyezd (district) in the Tiflis Governorate was chosen as the main place of their settlement. Doukhobor...

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Otto Wilhelm Hermann Abich

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Caucasus, Daghestan, Armenia and northern Persia. Residing for some time at Tiflis, he investigated the geology of the Armenian Highland (this term was introduced...

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Caucasian Albania

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Rawadids, Sajids, Salarids, Shaddadids, Shirvanshahs, and the Sheki and Tiflis emirates. The principal cities of Arran in early medieval times were Barda...

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Red Army invasion of Georgia

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country. Russian forces took the Georgian capital Tbilisi (then known as Tiflis to most non-Georgian speakers) after heavy fighting and declared the Georgian...

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Ingush okrug

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the Argunskiy Okrug [ru], in the south along the Caucasus Range with the Tiflis Governorate. Up until the 1860s, the mountaineers in the North Caucasus...

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Democratic Republic of Georgia

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(alternative names of areas are given in brackets): 1 – Tiflis region (Samokalako), capital - Tiflis 2 – Borchaly region (Kvemo Kartli), capital - Ratevani...

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Armenian genocide survivors

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refugees from Turkey carding wool in Tiflis, Georgia. Photograph by Melville Chater from the National Geographic Magazine, 1920. Armenian refugees in...

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Vladimir Lenin

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leadership of Joseph Stalin committed an armed robbery of the State Bank in Tiflis, Georgia. Although he briefly supported the idea of reconciliation between...

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Armenian merchantry

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strategically along the vital trade route linking Europe and Asia, Armenia's geographical advantage has sustained its centrality of international trade in the...

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Panthera pardus tulliana

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Society of London (June): 795–796. Satunin, K. A. (1914). "Leopardus pardus ciscaucasicus, Satunin". Conspectus Mammalium Imperii Rossici I. Tiflis:...

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Imperialism

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blanqueamiento (whitening) are common. The Royal Geographical Society of London and other geographical societies in Europe had great influence and were able...

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